STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2616
Honolulu, Hawaii
RE: S.B. No. 2934
S.D. 2
Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi
President of the Senate
Twenty-Eighth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2016
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Judiciary and Labor, to which was referred S.B. No. 2934, S.D. 1, entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO DRIVER LICENSING,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose and intent of this measure is to ensure driver license procedures are compliant with the federal REAL ID Act of 2005.
Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Transportation and one individual.
Your Committee finds that existing law does not require that a renewed driver's license contain a photograph of the licensee. This violates the REAL ID Act, which requires "[a] digital photograph of the person", among other things. Your Committee further finds that the REAL ID Act also requires an applicant to appear in person to renew the applicant's license if sixteen years have passed since the applicant last appeared in person. Accordingly, this measure ensures that the State's driver licensing laws comply with federal laws.
Your Committee has amended this measure by:
(1) Inserting language suggested by the Department of Transportation that amends section 286-108(c), Hawaii Revised Statutes, to clarify that the examiner of drivers may waive written or oral examinations in certain circumstances; and
(2) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency.
As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary and Labor that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2934, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2934, S.D. 2.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary and Labor,
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________________________________ GILBERT S.C. KEITH-AGARAN, Chair |
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